Turkey
traps are man made on site mostly. Although you can purchase some forms
of turkey traps from outdoor and hunting type stores, the man made
ditch, logs and corn method has been working just fine for trappers, and
hunters for hundreds of years. Building a turkey trap is fairly easy
and cheap to construct. The actual structure that holds the birds is
made of logs, sticks, large branches, pretty much what ever you can find
on the floor of the woods or laying around the yard.

The turkey trap should look something like a box made of logs. The
most laboring part is the actual ditch digging. The cage structure is
built somewhere in the center and on top of the ditch. It must be
covered and the logs should be tight enough together that the birds can
not escape but they can still get air and light in the box. After all
the construction is complete corn gets thrown around and in the ditch
leading into the cage or pen that will hold the birds.

No bottom should be necessary for the turkey trap and it will not
drop down and catch the bird once inside because the fact is turkeys are
just not smart enough to duck down and escape the same way they came.
As long as the ditch is not so long that they can see the light well
from the bottom of the trap coming in the pen they will just walk in
circles until they get pulled out by the trappers hands. Adding a pile
of corn in the trap will keep the birds calm and stop them from
panicking after all that is what they were after when they walked down
into the ditch and up into the pen and got trapped.